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Elegant prose, magnetic storytelling. Reminds me of books like The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
I like to find quotes in the book that sums up its essence. These are perhaps the one:
“Nobody can stay in the garden of Eden..I wonder why.”
“Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford.”
— Jun 16, 2025 07:35PM
I like to find quotes in the book that sums up its essence. These are perhaps the one:
“Nobody can stay in the garden of Eden..I wonder why.”
“Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford.”
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“For a woman, I think a man is always a stranger. And there’s something awful about being at the mercy of a stranger.”
— Jun 25, 2025 11:32AM
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From the way David describes simple things about Giovanni, clearly he is in love with the person, but hates that from now on his world changed because of it:
“He went to the sink and started washing his faced. He combed his hair. I watched him. He grinned at me in the mirror, looking, suddenly, beautiful and happy. And young - I had never in my life before felt so helpless or so old.”
— Jun 19, 2025 10:04AM
“He went to the sink and started washing his faced. He combed his hair. I watched him. He grinned at me in the mirror, looking, suddenly, beautiful and happy. And young - I had never in my life before felt so helpless or so old.”
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Ah David 🥺
“I was in a terrible confusion. Sometimes I thought, but this is your life. Stop fighting it…but I am happy. And he loves me. I am safe. Sometimes, when he was not near me, I thought, I will never let him touch me again. When it was over, I lay in the dark and listened to his breathing and dreamed of the touch of hands…which would have the power to crush me and make me whole again.”
— Jun 18, 2025 01:14AM
“I was in a terrible confusion. Sometimes I thought, but this is your life. Stop fighting it…but I am happy. And he loves me. I am safe. Sometimes, when he was not near me, I thought, I will never let him touch me again. When it was over, I lay in the dark and listened to his breathing and dreamed of the touch of hands…which would have the power to crush me and make me whole again.”